Railway tie and chair combined.



S. A. ROSS. RAILWAY TIE AND GHAIR COMBINED.

APPLICATION TILED AUG. 25, 1908.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTQE.

STERLING A. ROSS,

OF FAYETTE, 10 WA.

RAILWAY TIE AND CHAIR COMBINED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Application filed. August 25, 1908. Serial No. 450,580.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STERLING A. Ross, a l

residing at Fa life incident to the loosening and spreading of railswhile cars and trains are in translt on railroads and carryingpassengers.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of parts ashereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a top view of a section oftrack that shows how the two parallel rails are detachably fixed to thetwo-part chairs separately and detachably fixed to the tie. Fig. 2 is atransverse sectional view that shows how the chairs are formed and fixedto the tie as required to detachably and securely fix rails in thechairs on the end portions of a metal tie. Fig. 3 is a sectional view onthe line at r in Fig. 1 and shows how one part of a chair is connectedwith one end of the tie by means of a double bolt or stirrup.

The numeral 10 designates a flat metal bar doubled upward and inward atits ends to serve as a tie between two parallel rails in a track.

Metal chairs are formed in pairs or in two parts 12 and 13 and jointedtogether at their lower and inner edges by overlapping parts a as shownin Fig. 2, or in any suitable way as re uired to detachably unite themunder a rai 14. They have grooves 15 in their inner edges to admit theflanges of the rails. The outer parts 12 of the chairs have flat grooveson their top surfaces and central parts to admit the ends of the tie 10that are bent inward as required to prevent any longitudinal motions ofthem relative to the rails or lateral motions relative to the ends ofthe tie to which they are fastened by means of stirrups 16, washers 17and nuts 18 as shown in Fig. 3.

of which the safety in railway travel and and loss of 1 l The two partchairs 12, 13 have transverse grooves 19 in their bottom faces to admitthe 1 tie and to aid in preventing any motion of i the chair relative tothe tie, the rails and track. Having thus set forth the purposes of my 5invention and the manner of its construction 1 and arrangement andcombination of its 2 parts in a railway track the practical opera- 1tion and utility thereof will be obvious.

by Letters-Patent, 1s:

1. A railway tie and chairs combined,

1 comprising a flat metal bar bent inward at its ends and two-partchairs connected at l 1 their inner ends and detachably fastened to ithe bent ends of the tie. 1 2. A railway tie and chairs, comprising aflat metal bar bent inward at its ends and i two-part chairs detachablyfastened to the bent ends of the tie by means of stirrups and nuts asset forth. 3. In a railway tie and chairs 1 two-part chair composed oftwo mating parts joined together at their inner and lower ledges andprovided with grooves in their 1 inner edges to admit flanges of rails,a flat f metal bar bent inwards at its ends and stirrups for binding theparts together as set i forth. l. In a railway tie and chairs combined,a two-part chair composed of two mating parts combined, a

l 1o1ned together at their inner and lower edges i and provided withgrooves in their nmcr edges to admit flanges of rails and grooves in thesurfaces of their central portions to admit the ends of a flat tie bentat its ends as set forth. 5. A railway tie and chairs combined,comprising a tie bent upwards and inwards at its ends, two-part chairsjoined together at their inner faces and provided with grooves i intheir inner faces to admit flanges of rails and each member of eachpart-two chair provided with a groove to admit the end portions of thetie for the purposes stated. STERLING A. ROSS.

lVitnesses ii DONALD DYE, ;1 V.iE.;DYE.

What I claim as new and. desire to secure

